What is "religion"?
Is it possible to be non-religious?
The modern age decided that many people were just "not religious"... and so the modern system lumped everybody who was overtly worshipping a named god or idol into a big basket called "religious people" or even the vacuous label "theists".
The governing idea then, for 200 years, has been that the default setting for modern, western people is "not religious", but some people "find religion" - and get into this optional appendix, personal preference, mere opinion, blind faith that is "religion".
However, the Bible says that greed is idolatry.
Colossians 3:5.
The ancient prophet Hosea speaks as if living for food and wine is the worship of false gods.
He even says that the pursuit of money is idolatry that brings destruction - "By making idols for themselves from their silver and gold, they have brought about their own destruction." Hosea 8:4.
So however secular the pursuit of our desires might look, it is a religious devotion to idolatry.
From the perspective of the highest heaven, the modern western age is one of the most intensely religious of all human history - a time of fundamentalist fanaticism to idolatry.
We live at a time when our whole culture is filled with priests and preachers of idolatry.
Day and night we are constantly urged to renew our worship,
to make further sacrifices,
to stir up our love for the idols of pleasure and treasure.
𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫 - 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐥-𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬.